Buffy

So my Women and Media seminar paper is are supernatural women feminist or post feminist? My focus on this is on tv shows. This means I will spend the next couple of weeks watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Charmed, and the other show I haven't decided on yet (suggestions are welcome!). I'm leaning towards The Vampire Diaries at the moment, or True Blood, but I don't really know.

So Buffy is actually amazing. I never watched it when it was on TV and now I wonder why, aside from I was only 6 when it came out.

But yay, uni work that means I get to watch TV.

And buy text books about Buffy and Charmed. That actually exists! Amazing

Aberdeen's Gone Wild

Craig and Edwin dragged me out after work. Really. I went to meet them for one drink, just one! And just cause they wouldn't stop harassing me and phoning me until I agreed to that. But no, they kept buying me more drinks, and shots. But not drunk so YAY! And I only spent £5.

But seriously, THE FUCK has been going on in Aberdeen?! Last night there was so many groups of people dressed up in weird costumes. Really, there was a group of jelly fish! Jelly fish! Who the hell dresses up as a fucking jelly fish! And there were cowboys and indians, which is normal, and there was the playboy bunnies, still normal, with a guy in a dressing gown, trying to be Huge Hefner I think?

Then tonight there was like an army of people in AC/DC style tshirts but it was AB/DN. No idea what that was all about but by the time Underground closed most of them didn't have much of the tshirt left. I've never seen so many topless guys or girls in bras in a club in life.

Life Eh?

Sometimes I wonder what it would be like to have a normal life. One where there was no drama, or at least a day without any drama.

So last night Jade put a spike through her hand at work. Yeah that really happened. You know like in resturant's there's a spike that the checks go on when the food is served? Well Jade somehow (and I'm not quite sure how) managed to put that about half a cm into her hand. It wasn't fun, and I'd imagine quite painful. Queue my very bad attempts at first aid (what do you do when it's the first aider that needs the first aid?!) and some convincing that she should go to ARI. Fun times. 

So instead of the uni work I had planned for tonight, I ended up working. And it was busy. But it's all money at the end of the day, and I suppose the more of it I make now the better it is for me when I have too much course work to do and can't work much. Fun times.

Also, work made me miss Hollyoaks :( unimpressed with everyone going on about how good/sad/shocking etc it was on Facebook. Fuck off!

Twilight

So continuing on from last week and my Disney princess' are shit rant from last week, today Twlight get the piss taken out of it. Let's go.

Bella really needs to grow a pair of balls! Could she be any more pathetic? Saying that, she's bad enough in the film, in the book she is even worse. She sees the guy and instantly falls in love, pines after some guy that hasn't even spoke to her, acts a bit pathetic, finally gets with him when he saves her from some other guys she can't fight off then ditches all her friends to worship the ground he walks on.  All the while trying to avoid being eaten by him or his family. She then nearly dies because of him but has a mental break down when he mentions leaving her. All in the one film. Yes Robert Pattinson is hot as, but really get over it! (And he's not even that hot in Twilight. Now R-Patz in Remember Me, hell yes.)

So take the next film, New Moon, oh no he leaves her. Queue a montage of her sitting for months upon months staring out a window looking depressed. You're 18, move on. Suddenly, shiny new hot Jacob appears and Edward is out of the window, until she almost kills her self and has delusions of him appearing. He's not real you are clearly just way too obsessed! A lot of stupid behavior later and she saves him from killing himself because life just can't go on if their not together.

Third film, Eclipse, the scary vampire from the first one is coming after her, oh no. So get an entire vampire family and wolf pack to look after you and fight for you. Why protect yourself? I can't even remember what's pathetic about her in the last film. Or rather two films since they split it in two. 

Bella, man up. Never really noticed before how annoying she is with it all. Think about it, with True Blood Sookie fights just as much as the supernatural people do, she doesn't hide behind the guys to protect her. And Vampire Diaries, Elena tries to fight, and helps come up with the plans, but Bella just pathetically whimpers in the background, trying to convince Edward nothing can go wrong in their strange relationship. In Spiderman, Mary Jane gets kidnapped, but through no doing of her own, she still tries to fight out of it. In all the horror films out there the damsel in distress still at least try to survive and get out. Bella needs to go MAN THE FUCK UP. And teenage girls look up to this love sick idiot.

Sick Again

So once again I missed a post last night, but I was sent home from work early sick. I had mental bad cramps and ended up being physically sick so I got put home from work, lasted about 5 minutes in my living before the smell of food made me throw up again and then just came to my bed, where I want between sleeping and running to the bathroom. I hate being a girl. 

I've spent the whole day in bed feeling shit again today. And sleeping. Really I should be doing uni work but that can wait. 

Student. Child or Adult?

So being a student is like being a kid again. Seriously, nap time, Disney, any excuse to stay in bed all day and watch tv, a love of onsies. The list is endless. But while we want to regress to a child like manner, unfortunatly we're forced to grow up at the same time, moving out, being responsible, jobs, housework, cooking, cleaning, food shopping (which is really hard not to just buy crisps and cookies!) all while juggling the uni course work needed to pass. Yay. And people say students have it easy.

Like today I've been to uni, the library, Asda (and managed to actaully buy some real food and not just crap for a change), cooked my supper (which was really just one of Asda's ready meal curry and rice but still!) had a nap (cause it's been a long day) and looked up journals and read half a text book. And now it's time to chill out and watch mindless TV, before a weekend full of work. Can't wait! 

It really is time to start doing some non uni related things, that's not just going to work. Time to get a life! Or at least try!

Disney Part 2

So continuing on from yesterday's rant of how shit Disney Princess's are...

1. So on to Belle. She does appear to be smarter than the others, she actually reads books. Wow. She does something other than housework or singing and making friends with animals. Evidently none of the Princesses have the best people skills. And she does reject Gaston, who is (apparently) handsom and rich and all that, but a total dick. So yay her, he just wants someone to be a mother/housewife. So we're back to that again. But at least Belle had the balls to tell him where to go, since none of the other Princesses bothered they just went along with the shit dealt to them. She also had the balls to go save her dad and live with "the beast" who is really just a prince with a curse on him. Of course it would never be that simple, she tries to run away but gets attacked by wolves and can't save herself. Lucky for her the beast has a heart after all and swoops in to save the day. She nurses him to health, the fall in love, defeat Gaston and life happy ever after. Again.

2. And on to Jasmine. She starts out by running off to live as a commoner and meets Aladdin, a street rat. Turns out her dad is trying to force a marriage on her. So in swoops Aladdin. He pretends to be a prince and lies the entire relationships but it's fine, since he eventually saves her from Jafar and confesses. So as long as the guy eventually tells the truth and saves you from evil then it's fine he can be a lying scumbag. *I love Aladdin but it is pretty shit on Jasmine.* Moral of the story, fall for the guy fed you bullshit. 

3. There is Pocahontas and Mulan who are not quite as bad as the rest but are still shit. And then Merida, who is kick ass and takes no shit! But I can't be arsed getting into that right now. 

So Disney has great role modes. And magic false expectations. Maybe one day the guy who always lies to you will become your prince. Or running away and loosing a show will help you get a guy. Or just be an amazing housewife. No thanks. Real life is so much more interesting. 

*Be right back away to find a fictional prince.

Disney Princess or Pathetic?

I finally manages to force myself to read the whole of the Mills and Boon book for my lecture. What. A. Pile. Of. Shit! So after going to a party at her ex's dad's house the rich guy saves her from, well from nothing really. And then they go back to he is place and spent the next day in bed together, fall out, work together a couple weeks, then realise they're madly in love with each other... Good job too cause that one day they slept together got her knocked up.

I better not describe it like that in my tutorial tomorrow!

But Mills and Boon aren't the only franchise that like to create pathetic women. To be honest most films, books and tv shows have shit female leads. But Disney is really bad for that. Like really really bad. The Princesses are just shit! Like grow a pair eh?!

1. So we had a conversation a while back about Snow White, pretty much just that she's a hussy. And I totally agree. She's all innocent and fourteen. And her stepmother thinks she's a threat? She's fucking fourteen! Really? She's still a kid! Then that woodsman guy lets her off because shes beautiful, she moves in with seven men (the Seven Dwarfs) and proceeds to cook and clean for them, like a good little housewife. The she go saved by true loves kiss bullshit. But the prince only fell in love with her cause she was beautiful. Some fairy tale. Can't wait for that to happen.

2. Next we have Cinderella. The poor girl gets abused by her stepmother and sisters after losing both her parents. Her life pretty much sucks. But her friends (the animals of the estate...) make her a pretty dress to wear to the ball so she can make the prince fall in love with/rescue her. Evil step-family wreck her dress :(. Buuut the Fairy Godmother swoops in and makes her a new one yay! So she goes to the ball, and love at first sight, until she has to run off at midnight, back to her pathetic life of cooking and cleaning. He stalks her with her shoe (how is stalking romantic?) and happy ever after. Right.

3. Aurora. *Why do they all have weird names? Whats wrong with normal names? Anyway she's so important the whole kingdom get's a holiday when she's born (on another note, why was there a bank holiday for the royal wedding but not one for the future King being born?!) but really it was just an excuse to betroth her to Prince Phillip so there kingdoms wold be besties. Nice birthday present. Just what I always wish I'd got right! Cue an evil fairy curse (death/enchanted sleep. She was pretty pissed off about not being invited, remind me to always invite everyone I've ever met to things!) and good fairy gifts (beauty, being able to sing and not actually death just the enchanted sleep). After years of being lied to Aurora meets a random guy in the forest, with some more love at first sight. Yeah aha. Next she finds out she's been lied to, and that she has to marry some prince not the guy she loves. Enchanted sleep, loves first kiss blah blah blah. Oh, oh wait random is the prince so yay he saves the day and there's no heartbreak. At least not in the Disney version, I don't think it would have been as popular with the whole rape and childbirth thing.

I do have more but it's getting late again, and I have a lot to do again. But the rest of this will be up soon, I promise. Cause slagging off Disney is just too much fun! *I fucking love Disney btw!

Sleepy

I know I keep on moaning about life just now and here I go again. What a long day! Left for uni at like 8 this morning and got home at like half 8...at night. 

Not only was the day long it was exhausting. I'm not going to lie here, I have no idea what was going on in some of my lectures. Oops. It started out fine, the first research methods lecture got me terrified about dissertation, again. The second one not only made sense of the lecture last week (Yay I now know not only what the types of research are, but what type I need to do :) ) it also showed amusing youtube clips.

Yeah that really happened.  And yes, it really was used in a lecture.

It all went down hill from there. Post Modern Culture is confusing, and all we had was two theorists to learn about. I understood like nothing about the first one and maybe half of the second one. Or at least I think I did. Like postmodernism culture is a reflection of how shallow society had got? Or something like that maybe. I don't know!

Journalism was just as confusing, although to be honest I stopped paying attention. I was too lost to figure out what was going on. Oops.

Fun times though, I went to a RAG meeting and I'm pretty excited (although was too tired to show much enthusiasm at the time) to get involved. 

I promise that between the uni work tomorrow I will find the time to actually write an interesting post for a change though. Like something with depth and meaning...or not!

Over And Over

This whole writing a blog everyday thing is harder than I though it would be. Having the time to write a post every day is hard, with everything I have to do, and finding something to write about. Although to be fair most of these posts have just been full of shit, or me moaning and ranting. 

I'm too tired to try and write something interesting tonight, and it's late and I have uni in the morning again. Yay. It's only been a week and I'm so tired, and have so much work to do. I pretty much have no life anymore. 

Sleep time.

Game Over

So I never posted anything yesterday, so I've already lost the bet. But after a long hard day at work I got home at 2am and could barley keep my eyes open. Shit happens. But it really was a bad day, then today was just shit too. Today I managed to trip over a chair (I think, to be honest one minute I was walking then I was on the floor) and face plant the ground while carrying a tray of drinks to a table. Oops. And I hit my knee pretty hard on the floor too so I spent the last three hours of my shift limping about work in pain. And it still hurts now :(. There is nothing worse than falling in the middle of a full restaurant, when everyone goes quiet and just stares at you. Awkward.

It's been a busy week between working and uni but tomorrow is a new day. And hopefully it'll be a better week, where I might actually get up with my alarm going off and not when I realise I have like 10 minutes to get ready to get to uni on time.

This week I've been trying to read a Mills and Boon romance novel, for my Women and the Media lecture. To say it's painful to read is an understatement. The woman in it is pathetic. Like she put up with her husband cheating on her for 3 years, divorced him and has sworn off ever being with another man. Like even sex or casual dating or anything. But still desperately wants a baby. Because that's all women want right?

It's just another pathetic female lead in the entertainment industry. But that is another story, and another rant that I will probably have tomorrow. Now it's time for an early night to catch up on some of the sleep I've missed out on this week, and hopefully I can get up for uni in time tomorrow. Or not ;)

I Bet You First...

So I've finished my first week back to uni and I'm scared. Te amount of work this year is crazy and dissertation will possibly kill me but it will all be worth it in the end. 

And now apparently you can bet on what degree you'll get when you graduate. What. The. Fuck.?! Erm yeah that makes it all no pressure right! You better get a first cause I've bet all your savings on it. Betting on football and shit like that yeah. Bering in your degree, get a grip! Cause the gambling problems in the country are not bad enough as it, let's give people more ways to throw away their money. 

And since this whole blog is for a bet I'm being really contradictive here!

Handful Of Painkillers And A Lot Of Cough Medicine

And yes, the title's of this post and the previous one have been stolen from Sixx AM song lyrics. And yes the lyrics are about heroin (mine obviously isn't heroin addiction, just a cold but I like to exaggerate). There's my music obsession coming in again.

Sleep didn't help. I didn't get much of it. I was wide awake at 5am, then 8am, then 9am, then pretty much gave up. I feel so crap again. The head/ears are better but the rest is worse now. I'm pretty sure I've od'd on cough medicine today already, and cold and flu stuff, and painkillers. Yay wild one.

Between that and trying to get through some of the crazy uni work I already have it's been a fun filled one. 

So now I oficially give up on it. It's time for ice cream (Ben and Jerry's) and a Fast and Furious marathon to cheer myself up. Cause it's hard to be miserable watchin Paul Walker and Vin Diesel and Dwayne Jonhson, and the cars! *Drool ;)

Sick As A Dog

Holy shit, so last week I thought I had freshers flu, this week I know for sure I have it. My god I feel like shit right now. Sore head, ears/hearing being weird all day, coughing, sniffing, sneezing. The whole lot. And such a busy day.

Cineworld had free films on at Union Square for their student day so we went to see Runner Runner, which was alright, not the best thing I've ever seen but it was free! Plus, when Justin Timberlake is in a film who cares about the plot ;) Followed by food at Giraffe and shopping, then a thank you party at CLAN Cancer Support for our class raising £20,000 for them. Yay us.

But really, I feel like death warmed up and I'm all dosed up on cold and flu medicine so now I think it's time to try and sleep. Sleep will make it better, I hope!

Crazy Kids

It's been another long day. I spelt in for uni today, woke up at 7.55 and my first lecture was at 9. Oops. Mad rush to throw myself together and running out the door 15 minutes later with my flat mate who also slept in. But what a day. I have now had all my intro lectures to this semesters modules and I'm quite excited to et started. 

Dissertation sounds scary as fuck though. Like proper terrified of failing scary. But my motto for this year is it'll be fine, so positive thinking for the next 8 months and I'll get there. Although with very little sleep. 

I'm finally reunited with my bestie tonight as well, it's been like a month! So exciting. :). So being the crazy ones we are it's 10.30 and we've been in our jammies for 2 hours and nearly falling sleep on the sofa. Opps! 

Fuck It

So I got home from work half an hour ago and I have to get up for uni in 6 hours. I will not be a happy person tomorrow. A lot of coffee will be required. And red bull, really just any form of caffeine. It's going to be a long day. 

Even longer than today was. Work was a total night are again! Like people need to realise that I can't do a million things at once. I've never been shouted at and felt sorry for at the same time as much in my life ever. And I think I said sorry about 3 million times tonight. But unfortunately I ant make the oven cook the pizzas and fucking faster, and trying to run a full floor and tell the chef exactly what needs to go where while reassuring the customers their food will be out is not fucking easy. 

Like just fuck off. 

And now I have 8 hours of lectures to look forward to tomorrow. Yay. With the amount of work I already think I have I will have no life. And no sleep by the looks of it. Even my afternoon nap today was full of weird dreams about uni and work. I don't even get away from it then for fuck sake.